On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:50:13AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote:
> Adi Stav wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:40:10AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote:
> > > 1. The statistics didn't count *users*, but boxes. Each typical UNIX
> > > has more users connected to, *in average*, than a typical Linux
> > > box. It will not be a too far gamble to guess that there are more
> > > non-Linux users than Linux users ("non-Linux" in my words, means
> > > only other UNIXes, including Solaris/HP-UX/DG-UX/AIX/SCO/Irix/etc.,
> > > but excluding NT/OS2/mainframe/VMS/Novell/etc.). On the other hand,
> > > many UNIX users even don't know that they use UNIX.
> >
> > But what's a user? Someone who runs programs through a VT (e.g. bank
> > clerks)? A web client or PPP client?
> >
> > I remember a statistic saying Linux runs 3 out of 10 of the world's
> > busiest web sites (and I may very well be very off here).
>
> Next time, please don't quote *parts* of my message.
>
> I also wrote that even in the general-purpose servers field, where the
> presence of Linux is weaker than in the web servers, it already reached
> 25%.
>
> I wrote numbers which are very positive for Linux. Why should you quote
> a reservation and argue with it?
I was not trying to argue or disagree with you; I was just curious how
you'd measure numbers of users, and what you call a user. For example,
maybe VMS or OS/2 deserve to be considered differently once you think
of all the terminal operators in large organizations, or of those
banks' cash withdrawal machines (the American acronym escapes me).
> In addition, I emphasized that some of the UNIX users even don't know
> they use UNIX, not to credit UNIX, but to credit Linux, where almost
> everybody (of course excluding PPP clients, who are not counted, because
> they run their own OS) knows what OS he runs.
That would depend on what purposs they use it for... What did you have
in mind?
> --
> Eli Marmor
- Adi Stav
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